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• Family to Sue Health Insurer for Fatal Delay in Treatment

  David Tompkins | December 23, 2007 11:11 PM | 0 CommentsWashington, DC

  While not a typical automobile post, I'd like to draw your attention to this weeks story about a health insurer who denied a liver transpant to a young insured girl. It seems that liver transplants, to the health insurer, is still considered an "experimental" procedure, so they denied coverage for the procedure.The young girls family hired a well known TV lawyer to get some media coverage. ...

• Doctors Protect Drug Addict Physicians so they Can Treat You!

  David Tompkins | December 19, 2007 9:40 PM | 0 CommentsWashington, DC

  I take a lot of static from doctors who say I am too hard on their profession. "All professionals make mistakes," I have been told. True, but a professional fixes mistakes, or makes their client, patient, etc. whole. That is the nature of a profession, a self-regulating trade.Doctors don't want to help victims of medical malpractice. Doctors want their injured patients to accept their...

• Hospital Operates on the Wrong Side of the Brain -- For the THIRD TIME!

  David Tompkins | November 27, 2007 4:01 PM | 0 CommentsWashington, DC

  Rhode Island Hospital has been cited for a THIRD incident this year for performing brain surgery on the wrong side of a patient's brain. Two of the victims survived, one did not. According to Yahoo News, the hospital is reviewing its policies and training of doctors. This is a disturbing trend, and one that indicates significant problems with this hospital. One question that...

• Court Rules in Uninsured Motorist Policy Case

  Shannon Weidemann | October 31, 2007 11:21 PM | 0 CommentsWashington, DC

  A New Jersey Appellate Court ruled that a woman who was injured in a drive by shooting can receive compensation from the Uninsured Motorist portion of her car insurance even though she was just entering her car at the time of the shooting. The insurance company denied her claim originally. But the appellate judges, citing two New Jersey Supreme Court rulings, concluded there is no...

• Des Moines Bicyclist Injured in Accident

  Shannon Weidemann | October 31, 2007 10:53 PM | 0 CommentsWashington, DC

  A bike rider in Des Moines was hurt after being hit by a car. The bicycle accident happened last Tuesday on Interstate Highway 235. The driver of the car did not see the bicycle because of the sun. Police said he was taken to Iowa Methodist Medical Center by fire medics about 8:10 a.m. with injuries that were not incapacitating. The accident is being investigated but no charges have been...

• Motorcycle Officers Crash on Cardinals Trip to Stadium

  Courtney Mills | October 24, 2007 12:59 PM | 0 CommentsWashington, DC

  The Arizona Cardinals were on their way to the stadium on Sunday when two police motorcycles accompanying their buses crashed into one another. A police escort of two motorcycles was riding with the team to the field when the officers' cycles unexpectedly collided.According to Washington D.C. police, both officers sustained minor injuries in the accident. The officers were treated in a nearby...

• China Receives Apology From Mattel for Recalls

  Shannon Weidemann | September 21, 2007 4:54 PM | 0 CommentsWashington, DC

  A representative for Mattel Inc. traveled to China in order to deliver a personal apology to the head of product safety there. Mattel has issued numerous product recalls this year for toys made in China. Most of the recalls revolve around lead based paint used on the toys. "Mattel takes full responsibility for these recalls and apologizes personally to you, the Chinese people, and all of our...

• Washington Bus Driver Pleads Guilty in Pedestrian Deaths

  Shannon Weidemann | September 10, 2007 2:23 PM | 0 CommentsWashington, DC

  Two woman were hit by a Metrobus in February and killed. The pedestrian accident happened at the intersection of 7th and Pennsylvania Avenue. The driver of the bus has plead guility to two counts of negligent vehicular homicide. The accident was captured on videotape by a security camera positioned near the roof of the National Archives. Obtained by 9NEWS NOW and broadcast on July 20th, the...

• Dole Improves Testing to Ward of E. Coli Contamination

  Jenny Albano | August 31, 2007 2:00 AM | 0 CommentsWashington, DC

  The Dole Food Company, a major food and fruit producer, has improved testing to try and prevent breakouts of E. coli and other bacteriums that can cause food-bourne illnesses.Dole is testing samples from all the products the company markets and if anything harmful is found in the produce, the plants from that area will not make it through the processing chain. Also, the company has introduced a...

• Dole has Improved Testing to Ward of E. Coli

  Jenny Albano | August 31, 2007 1:43 AM | 0 CommentsWashington, DC

  The Dole Food Company, a large food producer, has improved testing for their produce to avoid E. coli contamination and other bacterium that can cause a food-bourne illness.Dole will be testing samples from all the spinach and other food produced by the company. If anything harmful to consumers is found in the food, the plants from that area will not make it through the processing chain. Also,...